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Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza MARITES A. SOTELO, 53, owns a small food store near a public school in Alicia, Isabela — scene of some of the worst Cagayan Valley floods after Typhoon Ulysses (international name: Vamco) in November. That means that on top of the pandemic, which deprived her of her clientele after the schools closed, Ms. Sotelo has had to deal with the economic damage done to her town by the typhoon, which caused the Cagayan River to overflow its banks — to the extent tha...

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) (MANILA BULLETIN) Over 142,000 low-income families have received their entitled emergency subsidies,  worth more than P931 million,  the DSWD said.  “As of Dec. 17, there are 142,058 beneficiaries who received their emergency subsidy under Bayanihan 2,” it said in a statement.  Of the number,  11,480 recipients are from areas under granular lockdown, while 130,578 are additional beneficiaries or those who did not receive Social Amel...

YEAR IN REVIEW | Yahoo PH top searches in 2020 As the year draws to a close, Yahoo’s Year in Review 2020  takes a look at the top happenings, people, and trends that captured the interest of the Philippines’ online community in 2020.  Taal Volcano, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, was the top searched news in the Philippines this year — its activity in January threatened the lives of nearly a million people across Calabarzon, Metro Manila and some parts of Central Luzon...

QUEZON CITY, Dec. 17 --  The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), turned over to the Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) P1 billion as additional funding for emergency loans to small farmers and fisherfolk. In a virtual ceremony held on December 15, 2020, Agriculture Secretary and DA-ACPC Chair William Dar turned over to LANDBANK, represented by its President and CEO Cecilia Borromeo, the new funds for the Expanded SURE Aid and Recovery Pro...

December 16, 2020 | 7:47 pm Font Size PHILIPPINE STAR/EDD GUMBAN A THIRD stimulus package worth P485 billion to help the economy recover from the pandemic and the late-year typhoons has been filed in the Senate. The Bayanihan III stimulus package formally known as Senate Bill (SB) No. 1953 or the proposed Bayanihan to Rebuild as One Act, does not contain a grant of special powers to President Rodrigo R. Duterte, unlike the first and second rounds of stimulus. The Bayanihan to Heal as O...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the extension of the validity of the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2) enables the DOLE to reach out and extend benefits to more workers. “We can now use our budgetary allocation even beyond December 19,” he said in a press briefing Wednesday. “We now have more time to implement the payout to our workers,” Bello added.  Bello earlier instructed labor officials to hasten the distribution of the P16.4 bill...

Senate gives final OK to bill extending Bayanihan 2 budget By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published December 15, 2020 6:14pm Voting 18-0, the Senate on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a bill that would extend the appropriations under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2 until June 30 next year. More than a fifth of the P165-billion Bayanihan 2 or P38 billion remains unobligated, Senator Sonny Angara said as he sponsored the Committee Report No. 159, taking into cons...

Senate Ralph Recto (Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Recto filed Senate Bill No. 1943 or the proposed “Bayanihan to Rebuild as One” Act which seeks to provide a P485-billion budget as “as a continuing response” to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the recent typhoons and accelerate the country’s economy recovery. A similar measure has also been filed in the House of Representatives by Marikina City 2nd District Rep. Stella Quimbo. Recto said the...

Congress OKs bills extending validity of 2020 nat’l budget, Bayanihan 2 enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 15) - A total of 18 senators approved on final reading the measures extending the availability of funds under the 2020 General Appropriations Act and the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2), which are both expiring this month. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte certified as urgent on Monday the said proposed measures. House Bill 665...

Published December 15, 2020, 1:40 PM CEBU CITY — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Central Visayas has disbursed P60,792,000 in emergency cash subsidy of P6,000 each to a total of 10,132 low-income families in Central Visayas as of December 9 this year. DSWD-7 Regional Director Rebecca Geamala said that the Bayanihan 2 is not to be interpreted as SAP 3 or coming after SAP 1 and SAP 2 under the already-lapsed Bayanihan to Heal As One Act, Republic Act No. 11469. Geamal...